Car-goupling



(No Model.)

, A. PREsTQNQ GAR COUPLING.

$783. Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

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ilrirrsn STATES ANTHONY PRESTON, OF CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR=CGUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,783, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed April 8, 1886. Serial No. 198,211. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- per part whereof bears against or is in close Be it known that I, ANTHONY Pnnsron, a. proximity to the front of the head of the coup citizen of the United States, residing at Chester, ling-pin. in the county of Delaware, State of Pennsyh It will be seen that when the link enters the Vania, have invented a new and useful Imdrew-head it strikes the pin and forces the provement in Car-Couplings, which improvesame rearward, and as the gudgeons D of the ment is fully set forth in the following specifipin occupy the guides E they cause the pin to cation and accompanying drawings, in whichturn rearward and enter the slots A, and like- Figure 1 represents a front View of a earwise rise until its lower end clears the inner 5 :0 coupling embodying my invention. Fig.2repperiphery of the link, when said pin drops resentsa longitudinal vertical section thereof. and enters the link, thus coupling the cars. Similar letters of reference indict rte come As the head of the pin moves outwardly, the spending parts in the two figures. spring J receives the impact of the same, so

My invention consists of improvements in that the forcible ascent of the pin is prevented, r 5 automatic car; couplings, as will be hereinafter and the pin is caused to drop quickly and unfnlly set forth. failingly enter the link before any jar or sud- Referring to the drawings, A represents a den stoppage of the advancing car or movedraw-head having longitudinally extending ment oi" the car to be coupled could occasion slots A in the top and bottom Wells thereof, the withdrawal of the link suilicient to pre no and B represents a coupling-pin, which is fit vent the pin from entering the link.

ted in the front ends of said slots, said pin Having thus described my invention, what having a head, O,fron1 opposite sides of which I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters project gudgeons D, which enter Vertical Patent, is

guides E, rising from the top of the draw- A draw-heed having vertical guides and 25 head adjacent to the end of the slot in which longitudinal slots, 2, spring connected with the the pin is fitted. draw-head, and a rotary and rising and fall- Connected with the head of the pin by means ing coupling-pin,with gudgeons entering said of s chain, F, is an arm, G, which is secured guides, and the spring receiving the impactto a rock-shaft, H, the latter being mounted of the pin when the letter rotates, the parts 3 on the platform or bumper of the our, and probeing combined as described, forming an imvided with a handle or lever, whereby pro proveuient in car-couplings. vision is made for raising the pin and nncoupw T T T ling the car when so required. EHOBA PRESTOA Connected with the draw-head and rising Witnesses: 35 therefrom is a. spring, J, formed of a.- bent JOHN A. li innnnsnniir,

piece ofstccl or other suitable motel, the up- A. P. GRANT, 

